Supporting Details - give more information about the Main Idea
Setting - where and when the story takes place
Character - a person or animal in a story
Main Character - the person/animal that the story is about
Main Event - the biggest event that the story is about
Fact - a statement that is true and can be proven
Opinion - someones thoughts or feelings about something
Non-fact- a statement that was not in the story at all
Authors Purpose - why the author wrote the story,
there are 4 possible reasons
(pursuade, inform, entertain, or to express a thought or feeling)
Infrence - using the information you have read, and information
you already know to come to a conclusion about something
in the story.
Compair and Contrast - how two or more things are alike
and how they are different.
Sequence - the order in which things happen
Steps in a process - the order that something should be done in.
example - recipe, building plans
Prediction - using clues from the story to make a guess of what
might happen next.
Context Clues - using the sentences and words around an unknown
work to figure out its meaning.
Solution - how a problem in the story is solved
Conflict - the problem in the story
Cause - what happens
Effect - what happens because of the cause
(Ex. I didn't do my homework - cause
I earned a zero for my grade - effect)
Judgement - how a character feels or thinks about someone
or something in the story. (example - He doesn't like the
new boy because he is wearing a green shirt.)
Summary - a short explination of what happened in the story - squishing it down
to only tell the important facts.
Point of View - who is telling the story
GRAMMAR VOCABULARY for the EOG Sentence - a group of words the expressed a complete thought
Declarative Sentence - ends with a period and tells something
ex. - The library is full of books.
Interrogative Sentence - ends with a question mark (?) and asks a question
ex. - How many of those books have you read?
Imperative Sentence - ends with a period and give a command or makes a reuqest
ex. - Look at the top of the building. or Please hand me the pencil.
Exclamatory Sentence - ends with an exclamation mark, and shows strong feelings or surprise.
ex. - Wow! I've never been in a city this huge!
Subject - is the part of the sentence that tells the who or what the sentence is about
Complete Subject - all the words that make up the subject
Simple Subject - the most important word in the subject telling me exactly who or what the sentence is about. (1 word!)
Predicate - is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is or does.
Compete Predicate - all the words that make up the predicate
Simple Predicate - the most important word or words in the predicate - always a VERB!!
Reading Vocabulary for the EOG
Main Idea - what the story is mostly about
Supporting Details - give more information about the Main Idea
Setting - where and when the story takes place
Character - a person or animal in a story
Main Character - the person/animal that the story is about
Main Event - the biggest event that the story is about
Fact - a statement that is true and can be proven
Opinion - someones thoughts or feelings about something
Non-fact- a statement that was not in the story at all
Authors Purpose - why the author wrote the story,
there are 4 possible reasons
(pursuade, inform, entertain, or to express a thought or feeling)
Infrence - using the information you have read, and information
you already know to come to a conclusion about something
in the story.
Compair and Contrast - how two or more things are alike
and how they are different.
Sequence - the order in which things happen
Steps in a process - the order that something should be done in.
example - recipe, building plans
Prediction - using clues from the story to make a guess of what
might happen next.
Context Clues - using the sentences and words around an unknown
work to figure out its meaning.
Solution - how a problem in the story is solved
Conflict - the problem in the story
Cause - what happens
Effect - what happens because of the cause
(Ex. I didn't do my homework - cause
I earned a zero for my grade - effect)
Judgement - how a character feels or thinks about someone
or something in the story. (example - He doesn't like the
new boy because he is wearing a green shirt.)
Summary - a short explination of what happened in the story - squishing it down
to only tell the important facts.
Point of View - who is telling the story
GRAMMAR VOCABULARY for the EOG Sentence - a group of words the expressed a complete thought
Declarative Sentence - ends with a period and tells something
ex. - The library is full of books.
Interrogative Sentence - ends with a question mark (?) and asks a question
ex. - How many of those books have you read?
Imperative Sentence - ends with a period and give a command or makes a reuqest
ex. - Look at the top of the building. or Please hand me the pencil.
Exclamatory Sentence - ends with an exclamation mark, and shows strong feelings or surprise.
ex. - Wow! I've never been in a city this huge!
Subject - is the part of the sentence that tells the who or what the sentence is about
Complete Subject - all the words that make up the subject
Simple Subject - the most important word in the subject telling me exactly who or what the sentence is about. (1 word!)
Predicate - is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is or does.
Compete Predicate - all the words that make up the predicate
Simple Predicate - the most important word or words in the predicate - always a VERB!!
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